Plant marker



July 30, 1940.

E. l. cRossl 2,209,873 A PLANT MARKER Filed July 24, 1939 l 5 4 /fw @maPatented July 3o, 1940 y l ,2299333 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFQE PLANTMARKER l Earl I. Cross, Taylor, N. Y.

Application July 24, 1939, Serial No. 286,287

1 claim. (o1. 40-19) v My invention relates to improvements in plantside of which the container lll is frictionally held. markers, and itsgeneral object is to provide a The container |11 is made of glass or anyother device of this character whereby plants, shrubs, suitabletransparent material, and is provided flowers and the like may bepermanently marked, with a threaded closure i8 of rust-proof matetherebyeliminating the possibility of losing the rial, having water-proof andair-proof packing 5 identity of theplants, etc. not shown, inside toprevent obliteration of the Another object of my invention is to provideindicia or data and to prevent deterioration of a device of thischaracter comprising a single the specimen rseed which may be storedtherein. piece of wire or other suitable material, such as Themodification shown in Fig. 3 is the same 10 any of the well knownplastics, which may be as Fig. 1, except that the holder is bent atright- 10 bent or moulded into the desired shape for holdangles, so thatthe container is held in a horiing a cylindrical, transparent,water-proof con- Zontal position and the label, therefore can be tainer,which is economical to manufacture, and read more easily. in which thelabels may be changed as desired From the foregoing description, it willbe seen or the holder moved from placeto place and that I have provideda plant marker, having an 15 which can be reused indefinitely.air-tight, water-proof transparent container,

With these and other objects in view, as will adapted to receive alabel, other vdesired indicia hereinafter more fully appear and will bemore or data, such as history, kind, description, date particularlypointed out in the appended claims, I planted, from whom purchased,etc., and in which i reference is now made to the accompanying samplesof the seed may be safely stored. Fur- 20 drawing forming a part of thisapplication, in ther, the marker may be readily moved from which; placeto place as desired and may be reused in- Fig. 1 is an elevational view,showing my imdenitely. v

proved plant marker; While` I have illustrated and described the in-Fig, 2 is a, cross-sectional View, taken on the VentO-n in Some detail,it is t0 be understood that line 2-2 of Fig. 1; the invention is not tobe limited to such details,

Fig. 3 is an elevational view, showing a modibut only by the spirit ofthe invention and thecation, wherein the sealed container is held inscope of the appended claim.

a horizontal position; and I claim: Fig, 4 is 3,11 elevational View,Showing the A plant marker 0f the ChaIaCSI dESCIbed, 30 marker in use inconjunction with plants, comprising, in combination, a cylindrical,trans- Referring now to the drawing, in which similar. parent container,adapted t0 exhibit a label or reference numerals represent similarparts,`in Fig. the like, means for supporting the container, 1 thenumeral il) represents the holder, which Comprising a Slender I'Od, Hear011e @11d 0f Which may be made of wire or other suitable metal, or isformed a supporting platform consisting of a any of the Well knownplastics, and may be of flat Spiral, the Spiral C0ntinuing to form anany desired color, preferably green, to blend with elongated helX, Saidhelix rCtiOnally encircling the color of the plants. One end of theholder and SupDOItng the Container, the Other end 0f I0 is bent to forma flat spiral I2, which acts as the rOd being adapted t0 be embedded inthe a supporting platform for the container I4. The ground.

iiat spiral I2 is extended to forma helix IB, in- EARL I. CROSS.

